Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 03 March 2016
03 Mar 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc and Care) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
I support Malcolm Chisholm’s amendments, and I will be brief. From my experience in the health service, I am well aware that there are patients who certainly do not want to know the detail of what goes on even in their own treatment, or if there have been mistakes. I appreciate that, for the duty of candour, it is necessary for them to know that there has been something, but it should absolutely be their right not to have to hear the detail of the concern. Malcolm Chisholm’s amendments 3 and 4 support what I think on the issue.
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The Deputy Presiding Officer (John Scott)
Con
The next item of business is stage 3 of the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc and Care) (Scotland) Bill. Members should have the bill as amended at stage 2, the ...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Con
Amendment 1, in the name of the minister, is in a group on its own.
The Minister for Public Health (Maureen Watt)
SNP
Amendment 1 is a technical amendment that is required as a result of an amendment to the bill at stage 2. The stage 2 amendment added to the relevant enforce...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Con
Amendment 3, in the name of Malcolm Chisholm, is grouped with amendment 4.
Malcolm Chisholm (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (Lab)
Lab
Amendments 3 and 4 relate to the provisions in the bill that deal with the duty of candour. As most members will know, the duty will arise if a person experi...
Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con)
Con
I support Malcolm Chisholm’s amendments, and I will be brief. From my experience in the health service, I am well aware that there are patients who certainly...
Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)
Lab
I, too, will be brief. At stage 2, I argued that the duty of candour should go through all health and social care processes, and that patients should be info...
Maureen Watt
SNP
As other members do, I recognise that it may not always be in the best interests of the individual to be told about what has happened. In implementing the du...
Malcolm Chisholm
Lab
I thank the minister very much for that, but I assure her that I am not parting yet. I have two and a half weeks’ worth of speeches left. Amendment 3 agreed...
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Con
We move to group 3. Amendment 2, in the name of the minister, is the only amendment in the group.
Maureen Watt
SNP
Presiding Officer, I indicated at stage 2 that an amendment would be lodged at stage 3 in relation to the care-worker offence of ill-treatment or wilful negl...
Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Con
I thank the minister for her response and for the very reasonable hearing that I got at stage 2. I am grateful that she has lodged amendment 2. Amendment 2 ...
Maureen Watt
SNP
I will make sure that Mary Scanlon’s point is clarified in the regulations and guidelines on the bill’s implementation. Amendment 2 agreed to.
The Deputy Presiding Officer
Con
That concludes consideration of amendments.